Vulnerable groups and access to health care: a critical interpretive review

Vulnerable Groups and Access to Health Care: A Critical Interpretive Review was a 2005 report for the National Co-ordinating Centre for NHS Service Delivery and Organisation R & D (NCCSDO) described as 'a critical interpretive review of access to health care by vulnerable groups' — of which men were one.

It is a comprehensive collation of research and other evidence including some interesting statistics. The authors say: 'An interpretive synthesis does not simply produce a summary of the evidence; it interprets it in ways that are insightful and useful. Our aim was to produce theory: a logical, plausible and useful explanation, grounded in a comprehensive but not exhaustive body of evidence, about access to health care'.

Vulnerable groups and access to health care: a critical interpretive review (PDF, 1.6mb)